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U.S. Woman Charged with Giving Secrets to Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-03-11 11:35:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 $10,000? Amateur. Ritter's fee was much higher

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-11 11:39:59 AM|| 2004-3-11 11:39:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I just Googled "Susan Lindauer." She is apparently a longtime lefty activist. She worked as an aide to Senator Carol Mosley Braun~~tosaurus~~, tried to give a "deposition" in the Lockarbie trial blaming the bombing of Pan Am 103 on Syrian agents hired by the US government, and is a signatory to the Peace Pledge to Stop Spread of Anti-Terrorist War to Iraq.

(If you do the search, you'll also see a lot of references to the other Susan Lindauer--a championship backgammon player in Michigan, and probably a very nice person.)

Posted by Mike 2004-3-11 11:56:51 AM|| 2004-3-11 11:56:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 She, or someone with the same name, was involved in the Lockerbie trial. In this story she is identified as a congressional aide.

Here this person is listed as an aid for Rep. Ron Wyden. Here it says she was a US New reporter.

Susan Lindauer, a reporter with U.S. News & World Report from 1990 to 1991, has switched Democratic offices within the Oregon congressional team. She's jumped from the office of Peter DeFazio, where she had been Press Secretary, to handle the same duties for Ron Wyden.

And in 2001, here (pdf file):

Albert Einstein Health Network (AEHN)
Susan Lindauer, Director
PEACE Program

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 12:01:50 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 12:01:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If this is the same person, she was an aide or spokesperson for several members of Congress and a Senator during the time she is alledged to have been spying for Saddam. The arrest being a result of the paperwork collected in Baghdad, you suppose?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 12:09:03 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 12:09:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Albert Einstein Health Network denies it's their Susan Lindauer. So, there's at least two women with the same name.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 12:15:36 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 12:15:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The local DC news just did a long stand-up outside her house in (I am so surprised) lefty-leaning Takoma Park, Maryland. Her car has two bumper stickers: "War is not the answer" and "Peace in Iraq through Change at Home". Thesecond sticker has a website:

She must have turned green and purple when she saw all those $millions$ being carted out of Sammy's palaces...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-3-11 12:23:04 PM|| 2004-3-11 12:23:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Oops. Here's the website: Education for Peace in Iraq Center

Posted by Seafarious 2004-3-11 12:26:14 PM|| 2004-3-11 12:26:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The terrorism-related charges are chickenfeed... just wait till the IRS gets their shot at her for all that undeclared income. She's toast.

Posted by .com 2004-3-11 12:34:51 PM|| 2004-3-11 12:34:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember, "they're not anti-war, they're on the other side".

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-11 12:36:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-11 12:36:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 New bumper sticker - "Peace in Iraq, $10K at a time"

Posted by Raj 2004-3-11 12:42:44 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-3-11 12:42:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The Smoking Gun has the paperwork up:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 1:00:34 PM|| 2004-3-11 1:00:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Only one question remains unanswered . . . does the backgammon player work for the Albert Einstein Health Network?

Posted by Mike 2004-3-11 1:11:51 PM|| 2004-3-11 1:11:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "Lindauer made multiple visits to the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in New York "

"Her car has two bumper stickers: "War is not the answer" and "Peace in Iraq through Change at Home". "

Pardon me, but doesnt this seem like absolutely lousy tradcraft??? I mean doesnt everyone know that UN missions are watched?? Why didnt they establish a secure maildrop for her?? And a secure contact? And why would somebody engaged in espionage parade their political beliefs??? Soviet agents were pretty discreet - some even went so far as to pretend to be political right wing. Something fishy here - or else Iraqi Intell was really Keystone Cops - definitely not Moscow Centre material.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 1:16:19 PM|| 2004-3-11 1:16:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "in which she said she had access to members of the Saddam Hussein regime" Unless all that was DELIBERATE, to establish cover so she could offer herself to US intell, and then work instead for Iraqi intell, either by feeding false info to US intell, or by finding out what US intell wanted and taking "backbearings". Is Iraqi Intell that clever??? And how much of her leftiness was real, and how much was cover?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 1:22:28 PM|| 2004-3-11 1:22:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Just read the indictment at the Smoking Gun. She's toast. The "anti-war" movement was plainly riven with traitors, but this one really screwed the pooch with her visits to Iraqi intelligence and trip to Baghdad.

See ya Susan!

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-3-11 1:23:05 PM|| 2004-3-11 1:23:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Going deep, hail Mary.

Check her abodes for anthrax.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-11 1:23:24 PM|| 2004-3-11 1:23:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 LH -- I don't know what your point is. I think it's quite likely her politics drove her treason, rather than her treason driving her politics. She certainly didn't take a boatload of cash, and her being a leftist, pro-fascist, stupid traitor doesn't (IMHO) conflict with her politics at all.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-11 1:29:08 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-11 1:29:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 RMcLeod -- I cannot wait to see what more research on her activities in the "peace" movement turns up.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-11 1:30:48 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-11 1:30:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#19

Lindauer worked at Fortune, U.S. News & World Report and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before beginning her career as a political publicist. She worked for then U.S. Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., before joining the office of former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun as press secretary in 1996.

Chris Fitzgerald, a spokesman for Wyden, now a senator, said the office had heard Thursday of Lindauer's arrest and expected to issue a statement later in the day.

"She worked for us a short period of time," he said.

Moseley-Braun's current spokesperson, Loretta Kane, said the former senator does not remember Lindauer.

Link

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 1:39:28 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 1:39:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 More intel from weekly standards Katherine Mangu-Ward

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/842odgdw.asp

My guess is the press is starting to smell blood( and headlines).

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 2:08:02 PM|| 2004-3-11 2:08:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Here's a news story from 4/20/2002. A Susan Lindauer was a spokesperson for Cal. Senator Diane Feinstein.

San Francisco International Airport officials are asking the federal government to delay a June deployment of its new security screeners to buy time for the immigrants who now work as checkpoint guards to become citizens.

The request came to light yesterday as religious and labor groups intensified their fight to prevent 1,200 noncitizen security screeners at Bay Area airports from losing their jobs. Under legislation passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, noncitizens are barred from joining the new Transportation Security Administration's screener force...
Yesterday, Feinstein said she is working to "build Republican support" for her bill. "It's going to be an uphill battle, but we're going to keep at it."

Lofgren's bill has drawn 28 co-sponsors, including some Republicans, spokeswoman Susan Lindauer said.

"Raising the issue puts the (Immigration and Naturalization Service) on notice that we're committed to helping people who have done excellent work protecting our airports keep their jobs," Lindauer said.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 2:09:07 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 2:09:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 LiberalHawk, I've heard the acronym MICE used to explain why people betray their country: Money, Ideology, Compromise (e.g., blackmail), and Ego. From what I've read so far, this woman is a combination of money + ideology.

Or, the money may have been the hook the Iraqis used to fix her once she betrayed us the first time: get a photo of her taking the money and then let her know that she's yours forever, otherwise the FBI gets a letter. In which case ideology brought her in and compromise kept her there.

Posted by Steve White 2004-3-11 2:13:35 PM|| 2004-3-11 2:13:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 LH, forgot to add a useful URL on why spies do what the do: find it here.

Posted by Steve White 2004-3-11 2:14:45 PM|| 2004-3-11 2:14:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 My bad. The story wasn't clear. #20, Frank's link, points out that she worked for Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren. If this is the same woman that they arrested.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 2:14:51 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 2:14:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Congresswoman Lofgren's office stammers and states that Susan Lindauer does not currently work there.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-11 2:18:25 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-11 2:18:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Someone's got a lot of explaining to do. I'd love to see what Zoe has to say. I had the dis-pleasure of meeting that bitch(Zoe), and I can honestly say she is one of the most repugnant people I've ever encountered.

Posted by Lil Dhimmi 2004-3-11 2:22:40 PM|| 2004-3-11 2:22:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 RC and SW - im NOT questioning that a spy might be motivated by money, or might be stupid. Im questioning the way here Iraqi controllers ran her.

Woman walks into embassy - hey, I work in Washington, I might be able to find something interesting for you.
Iraqi controller - ok, we'll take any help we can get, and give you some money for your trouble. But you dont know any espionage tradecraft, and WE DO. So hows here you operate. First, dont walk up to the Mission again, its watched. You want to contact us, you call this number here and ask for a "felafel to go" we'll let you know (by means we cant tell you know) what to do next. If you give us enough material, we'll set you up with microdots,etc. By the way, you dont happen to be open about being pro-Iraqi do you? Cause if you want to work for us, thats not a particularly good idea.

Either Iraqi intell was too stupid to do something like this, or lacked the resources. In either case there wasnt much threat from Iraqi intell, in the US at least.

Did like Kim Philby go around with a "ban the bomb" bumpersticker?? I dont think so. yet he was ideologically motivated.

I HOPE we have agents in Iran, Syria, etc. I hope they DONT participate in prodemocracy marches, and other activities that would call attention to themselves.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 2:44:55 PM|| 2004-3-11 2:44:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 look, that a lady who visited the Iraqi mission several times wasnt checked out by the FBI doesnt make sense.

Let me tell you some personal history. When I was in high school I was a subway buff (alias trolley jolley, etc) I wrote to several foreign missions in New York for info on their country's metro systems. (The French, BTW, invited me to use the French Cultural Center in Manhattan) Among others I wrote to the Soviet Mission (they were completely UNcooperative, of course) A little while later my parents got a visit from - you guessed it - the FBI (i was in school, and they didnt tell me about this till years later) Apparently they just routinely followed up on ANYONE who sent a letter to the Soviet Mission.

I have a hard time believing that there was no follow up here.

Something doesnt add up. I dont know what - im NOT driving at ANYTHING in particular - just something doesnt add up.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 2:59:30 PM|| 2004-3-11 2:59:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 How old are you, LH? Things may have changed quite a bit in how the FBI handles these things.

And let's be honest -- if the FBI started snooping around the staffer of a hard-left congressthing, there would be screaming from the rooftops. She may have been handled poorly by the IIS, but she was also a "peace" activist, and that would serve as functional cover quite well, IMHO.

In any case, it's quite obvious she's as dumb as a post. The bad tradecraft may have been her idea. After all, I have no doubt she doesn't consider ANYTHING she's done to be wrong in any sense, let alone criminal.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-11 3:15:46 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-11 3:15:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Old enough that the cold war was still very much on, I admit. Still, I only wrote a letter, i didnt visit.

Why would there be screaming from the rooftops - you are surely aware how much vetting is done of all kinds of people who want to work for the US govt, or for govt contractors???

As for Lofgren being hard left, I'll have to check sources on that.

Dumb as a post - maybe. But then is it smart to give $10,000 bucks and to open up the possibility of scandal (had she been caught PRIOR to March 2003) to somebody that dumb? Again I presume our intel operatives are trained NOT to run agents who are too dumb to be trusted.

My points then boil down to this
1. IIS handling was extremely dumb.
2. She managed to "slip through the net"

I suppose these arent that big a deal. Im not 100% sure though.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 3:27:25 PM|| 2004-3-11 3:27:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Why would there be screaming from the rooftops - you are surely aware how much vetting is done of all kinds of people who want to work for the US govt, or for govt contractors???

Yes. Is that level of scrutiny applied to Congressional staffers? I, for one, would be shocked if it is. I mean, Christ, there are elected officials who couldn't pass a background check; do you think they'd let their staffers be subjected to the process?

Dumb as a post - maybe.

She's a "pacifist" -- proof positive that she's dumb as a post.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-11 3:39:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-11 3:39:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 LH... let's go back to the Soviet Mission thing. It's been awhile, is your story the same? Why didn't you visit? Was there a payphone nearby perhaps (Yes! there was!). It's not to late LH to come clean. BTW check under your bed tonight. ;>

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-11 3:45:22 PM|| 2004-3-11 3:45:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 whitehouse staffers get background checks, not sure about congress, think only if they work with sensitive info, Intel commitees, etc.

But i wasnt saying she had to have clearance to get the job. Just that a routine check wouldnt cause that much screaming.

BTW - Albert Einstein was a pacifist. Im not one, but i hardly think everyone who is one is dumb as a post.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-11 3:46:56 PM|| 2004-3-11 3:46:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 LiberalHawk, the FBI would indeed have been aware of her contacts with the Iraqi mission right from the beginning.
This is not illegal in and of itself. Her status as a peace activist and Congressional staffer would help mitigate suspicion about her actual intentions.
Beyond that, Lindauer would undoubtedly be familiar with the careers of such LLL luminaries as Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, and Barbara Lee.
This being the case, it is understandable that she might think there was nothing wrong with acting as an enemy agent or, at the very least, that the standard shrieks of "McCarthyism" etc. would provide an infallible blanket of immunity.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-11 3:59:18 PM|| 2004-3-11 3:59:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 Best link so far, via the great Glenn Reynolds:

http://silflayhraka.com/archives/003919.html
notice the method behind the process via saddam to journalists!

Money Quote from saddam:" "Compared to tanks, journalists are cheap--and you get more for your money."

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 4:05:11 PM|| [varifrank.typepad.com] 2004-3-11 4:05:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Seattle PI fesses up - headline as of 1:00 -
UPDATE - 12:43 PM
Former NW journalist charged with being Iraqi spy
Susan Lindauer, who once worked for Post-Intelligencer and The Herald of Everett, was arrested today on charges she acted as a spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001876629_webiraqispy11.html

Anyone remember where the post office was in DC that got hit with Anthrax?

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 5:23:09 PM|| 2004-3-11 5:23:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Takoma Park appears to be 5 miles from the Brentwood post office.

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 5:36:09 PM|| 2004-3-11 5:36:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 From what is posted here about her congressional affiliations,the transcripts of her interagations should be real interesting reading.

Posted by Raptor 2004-3-11 5:58:28 PM|| 2004-3-11 5:58:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 LH, bad tradecraft but the anti-war/america people don't think of themselves as spies. They think they are simply doing the work of the left that needs to be done. They have a lot in common with the Arab charities that think raising money for bombing Israel is not Terrorism. Also I rememeber one guy we caught spying in plain sight. He didn't think we were smart enough to catch him! LH, they (lefties) all think that way.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-3-11 6:15:26 PM|| 2004-3-11 6:15:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 Gleaned from - http://www.komotv.com/stories/30246.htm

Quote from Perp:
I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible."

Lindauer's father owned newspapers in Alaska. After his defeat in the governor's race, he pleaded no contest to two charges related to his campaign finances. He received probation and a fine.

Lindauer is also a distant cousin of White House chief of staff Andrew Card, said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 6:47:45 PM|| 2004-3-11 6:47:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 Alaska? Why isn't Paul, our man in Alaska, all over this??? Sleeping on the design table while treason's going on?

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-11 7:48:35 PM|| 2004-3-11 7:48:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 I was wondering the same thing. Paul turns his back for two seconds and BANG, stuff happens.

anyway - heres a quick look around the publically available info on Susan Lindauer and her family connections:

Susan Lindauer -
media watch 1993 article where she is selected by peter defazio
http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/mediawatch/1993/mw19930901rd.html

1994 jumps to Ron Wyden.
http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/mediawatch/1994/mw19940301rd.html

susan lindauer on "CIA Leak"
http://www.sundayherald.com/8759

reports "Congressional aide Lindauer, who was involved in early negotiations
over the Lockerbie trial, claims Fuisz made "unequivocal statements Ã to me that he
has first-hand knowledge about the Lockerbie case". In her affidavit, she goes on:
"Dr Fuisz has told me that he can identify who orchestrated and executed the bombing.
Dr Fuisz has said that he can confirm absolutely that noLibyannationalwas involved in
planning or executing the bombing of PanAm 103, eitherinanytechnicalor advisory
capacity whatsoever

(found link on www.nogw.com)

John Lindauer :

A political profile of john lindauer
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/AK/G/john.lindauer.html

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/30/ak.governor/

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/26/alaska.gop.ap/

lindauer on funding from "chicago lawyer wife"

http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/alaska/

Dorothy Oremus - wife as of 1995
Oremus and her family own Prairie Material Sales, a $300 million concrete producer
headquartered in suburban Chicago. It is the largest privately held construction
materials maker in the Midwest. Oremus, who married Lindauer in 1995, is also a board
chairman of a bank.

http://www.juneauempire.com/Archive/November98/110198/stories/110198/oremus.html

a breakdown of the failed campaign for gov of alaska:
http://www.ptialaska.net/~crayola/lindauer.html

the money quote:
The Saturday before the election the Anchorage Daily News reported that when
Lindauer tried to get organized labor's support in July, he got lobbying help from
Ernest Kumerow, son-in-law of Chicago mob boss Anthony "Big Tuna" Accardo.
The Laborers International Union classified Kumerow, a former head of the Chicago
District Council and a friend of the Oremus family, as "an associate of the Chicago Outfit."

more on this angle :
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a363b53c2667a.htm

I'm still trying to find what she wrote when she worked for the seattle PI and the everette herald and for fortune magazine.

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 8:22:41 PM|| 2004-3-11 8:22:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 and on to the others mentioned as her operators:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030415_2176.html

when i saw the "raed", I asked my self if this was the famous raed of "where is raed" website. it seems to be......

I give a link to the great Den Beste on the subject:
http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/04/WheresRaed.shtml

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-11 8:40:09 PM|| 2004-3-11 8:40:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 BTW - Albert Einstein was a pacifist. Im not one, but i hardly think everyone who is one is dumb as a post.

Einstein was a genius at physics. That doesn't mean he wasn't dumb as a post about other things.

But you maybe right -- a better description of pacifists is amoral cowards who hide behind those willing to actually defend civilization. There are exceptions, of course -- those who are willing to work in non-combat roles. Those seem to be as common as hen's teeth nowadays.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-11 8:54:14 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-3-11 8:54:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 If she is guilty (I think she is, but YNK), I hope she gets to spend a few years with some ODCs (Ordinary Decent Criminals).

Posted by Jackal 2004-3-11 9:52:36 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-3-11 9:52:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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